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Dr. Morse : It must have been an incipient case in the first 

 place. 



Mr. Lowell: Well, I suppose those stalks were inoculated 

 in some way, but how it spreads from one hill to another is 

 something I do not know. We have our plant pathologists 

 working for us all the time, but they can not solve all our 

 troubles. Two years ago there was an abundant crop of pota- 

 toes throughout the country ; we all had big crops and it al- 

 most ruined some people and it did not help us any. Last 

 year it came the other way ; we got a very small crop of pota- 

 toes and for us that was a little better, for we did not have so 

 much work to do anyway. 



Voted to adjourn until afternoon, at 1.45 o'clock. 



